I'm guessing the &mut a stuff makes more sense to C folks. In C you have to deal with const, and it can go anywhere. A const pointer to a non-const item, a poin

I'm guessing the &mut a stuff makes more sense to C folks. In C you have to deal with const, and it can go anywhere. A const pointer to a non-const item, a pointer to const value, etc. That's my guess anyway.